LUCKNOW, Dec. 27 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Principal Bench, New Delhi, has dismissed an appeal challenging the cancellation of environmental clearance granted for sand mining in the river Dhasan in Jhansi district.

The bench comprising the tribunal's chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member A Senthil Vel on December 24 held that the appeal was barred by limitation under Section 16 of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, and that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to condone delay beyond the statutory outer limit of 90 days.

The tribunal noted that the environmental clearance granted to appellant Vipin Kumar Saxena on November 18, 2022, was revoked by the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (S...